Hannah Burdette: "An Index of Possible Worlds: Towards a Theory of Indigenista Speculative Fiction"
Friday, October 7th
12:00 PM, Humanities Center, PAC 113
Hannah Burdette is Associate Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies.
Since the 1990s, several non-Indigenous authors of varying backgrounds and nationalities have turned to speculative fiction to reflect on the relationship between capitalist development and Indigenous thought. This presentation will explore what it means to use Indigenous worldviews as a framework for envisioning alternatives to modernity/coloniality. To what extent does a writer’s ethnic identity and cultural background define and/or limit the text’s decolonial possibilities? Why do Indigenous political philosophies provide such a compelling framework for questioning the progression of capitalist exploitation into the future?
